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Width vs Wider - What's the difference?

width | wider |

As a noun width

is the state of being wide.

As an adjective wider is

comparative of wide.

width

English

Noun

(wikipedia width) (en noun)
  • The state of being wide.
  • The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
  • A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
  • (cricket) The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
  • (sports) The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.
    • Manchester United like to play with width .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England looked to put width on the ball after the restart, Armitage very nearly going over in the corner only for the video referee to decide his foot was in touch. But Armitage did get on the score-sheet five minutes later, Ben Foden straightening and putting the London Irish man in. }}

    Synonyms

    * (extent or measure of how broad or wide something is) breadth

    Related terms

    * wide * wideness * breadth

    wider

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (wide)

    • Anagrams

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    wide

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  • Large in scope.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders
    • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
  • (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
  • On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  • * Spenser
    • Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
  • * Massinger
    • I was but two bows wide .
  • (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  • Remote; distant; far.
  • * Hammond
    • the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
  • (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  • * Milton
    • our wide expositors
  • * Latimer
    • It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
  • * Herbert
    • How wide is all this long pretence!
  • (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.
    • a wide''' character; a '''wide stream

    Antonyms

    * narrow (regarding empty area) * thin (regarding occupied area) * skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)

    Related terms

    * widely * widen * wideness * widescale * width * wide awake * wide of the mark * wide open * wide receiver * wide shot * wide-angle * wide-eyed * widescreen * widespread * worldwide

    Adverb

    (er)
  • extensively
    • He travelled far and wide .
  • completely
    • He was wide awake.
  • away from a given goal
    • The arrow fell wide of the mark.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.}}
  • So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
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